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SINGAPORE – Nine new cases of the coronavirus disease, Covid-19, were confirmed on Friday (Feb 14), including a healthcare worker and six patients linked to the Grace Assembly of God church.
The cluster is now the largest in Singapore with 13 patients. The first two patients there tested positive on Feb 11.
None of the new cases has recent travel history to China and all nine are Singaporeans.
Meanwhile, two previously announced cases have recovered and were discharged on Friday, including a two-year-old girl who was one of 92 Singaporeans evacuated from Wuhan on a specially arranged Scoot flight on Jan 30.
The other is a 27-year-old man who attended a business meeting at the Grand Hyatt Singapore last month.
Here are the details of the new cases:
Case 59 is a 61-year-old doctor who works at a private hospital and fell sick on Feb 7.
He has not been to work since he fell ill and has no known interactions with past cases.
He sought treatment at Farrer Park Hospital’s emergency care clinic on Monday and at the emergency department at Mount Elizabeth Hospital on Wednesday.
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